Amanda Wingfield is an abandoned wife and single mother living in a small apartment in St. Louis. She dreams of the future for her children and is a good mother. She is fixated at the oral stage because she has 'dairia of the mouth', in other words she talks too much. She showed signs defense mechanism such as denial, when at Laura's college she denies that the professor is talking about her daughter, and when …showed first 75 words of 390 total…

…showed last 75 words of 390 total…a life of his own. Tom is fixated at the oral stage because he has a favor in drinking and because he smokes. He shows signs of displacement because he smokes and 'goes to the movies' to displace his frustration. Tom is ego dominated because he sees the reality that if he stays with his sister and mother he is going to be stuck in the warehouse for ever with no improvement in his life.